JAKARTA, July 18 Kyodo Indonesia'...

JAKARTA, July 18 Kyodo

Indonesia's highest Court on Thursday raised the jail dogma imposed on a defendant in the 2000 bombing of the Jakarta Stock Exchange building that killed 10 nation and injured 46 others, from 20 years to imprisonment for life.

The court announced the stiffer condemnation in rejecting an appeal by the agency of Tengku Ismuhadi Jafar, 30, to lighten his penalty.

In August last year, the toward the south Jakarta District Court sentenced Jafar and another defendant, Nuryadin, to 20 years in prison each for their parts in the bombing. Nuryadin, who escaped from jail in July last year, was tried in absentia.

Jafar kept repeating that he is innocent and said he will move anywhere in the world, including in an international court, to follow justice.

The toward the south Jakarta District Court found Jafar guilty of planning the bombing, using his auto repair store to make the bomb and transporting it to the stock exchange building forward Sept. 13, 2000. Nuryadin was erect guilty of assembling and delivering the bomb

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